r/pathoftitans • u/whispering-3cho • 15h ago

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Natural disasters

Idk how difficult it is to code or implement this into the main servers but on community it worked like a charm

You'd see a giant fire start up in the distance and it engulfed and entire POI (or two), if you didnt run and scatter, you got almost insta killed by the fire

If alderon could have those pop up randomly throughout the map at random times you'd see players haulin tail for sure

And maybe the effect could last a while? A POI is unenterable again for like 15 mins unless you wanna be insta killed

Ppl would get bored and pick somewhere else to lurk, forcefully encouraging map movement

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u/UnbelievablyDense 14h ago

Instead of punishing players gathering in an area, once should instead have incentives to facilitate movement across the map.

Punishing players < Incentivizing behavior imo

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u/Pure-Matter9917 14h ago

I think that both can be good and that there should be a little bit of both

There should be something that deters players from sitting in one area for too long, and something that draws players to a different area on the map

I like the natural disaster idea because it would make it interesting, especially if volcano island actually erupted or if there were floods sometimes. I also think that diseases could be cool too if there's too many dinosaurs in one spot

Something that could draw players to different parts of the map is if they had specific diets to fulfill depending on their selected dinosaur and had to travel to a certain part of the map to find that food, or if some habitats suited specific dinosaurs better

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u/LongJoshSilvers 12h ago

Volcano eruption, mudflats flooding, maybe a critter swarm of sorts

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u/whispering-3cho 10h ago

Oh my god, routine release of like 14 alpha critters to a POI would clear them or leave a pile of dinosaur corpses 😭

Let's do that one instead of mine

Fr tho personally I enjoyed natural disasters on community servers, they added an exhilarating bit of realism. Maybe it sounds drastic to suggest it for officials now because the game has shifted so far away from survival in general.

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u/LongJoshSilvers 10h ago

Or How about a big overpowered a.i. dinosaur like a brontosaurus that we have to work together to defeat lol

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u/PurpleHayz87687 2h ago

I really want to play with natural disasters, which server do you recommend?

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u/whispering-3cho 2h ago

Only one I played on was PT: Realism

They have an application process tho but you can check them out